
1. According to Augustine, what is the "Earthly City"?
~ A way of living within civilization that is marked by the love of self and pleasure in the moment. According to Augustine, the Earthly and Heavenly City are polar opposites. 
@ A way of living within civilization that is marked by the love of self and pleasure in the moment. According to Augustine, the Earthly and Heavenly City are polar opposites. 
*a. A way of living within civilization that is marked by the love of self and pleasure in the moment.
b. A way of living within civilization that is marked by the love of God and denial of earthly pleasures.
c. A way of living within civilization that is marked by the love of sin and focused on expansion.
d. A city marked by the love of God and refusal of the Old Testament. 

2. According to Augustine, what is the "Heavenly City" or "City of God"?
~ A way of living within civilization that is marked by the love of God and denial of earthly pleasures. According to Augustine, the Earthly and Heavenly City are opposite states of being. 
@ A way of living within civilization that is marked by the love of God and denial of earthly pleasures. According to Augustine, the Earthly and Heavenly City are opposite states of being. 
a. A way of living within civilization marked by the love of self and pleasure in the moment.
*b. A way of living within civilization marked by the love of God and denial of earthly pleasures.
c. A way of living within civilization marked by the love of sin and focused on expansion.
d. A city marked by the love of God and refusal of the Old Testament. 

3. Augustine relates to other Roman Historians such as Tacitus via
~ Augustine relates to other Roman Historians such as Tacitus via his belief in the importance morality plays in historical change. 
@ Augustine relates to other Roman Historians such as Tacitus via his belief in the importance morality plays in historical change. 
a. his belief in the wickedness of pride.
b. his belief in Jesus Christ as the son of God.
*c. his belief in the importance morality plays in historical change.
d. his belief in a natural cycle of historical change.

4. After the Visigoths sacked Rome in 410 CE, non-Christian historians began
~ After the Visigoths sacked Rome in 410 CE, non-Christian historians began to blame Christianity for the weakening of Rome, prompting Augustine to make this argument.
@ After the Visigoths sacked Rome in 410 CE, non-Christian historians began to blame Christianity for the weakening of Rome, prompting Augustine to make this argument.
a. to convert in mass to Christianity.
*b. to blame Christianity for the weakening of Rome.
c. to question the legitimacy of the Emperor. 
d. encourage a civil war to end Christianity.

5. Augustine writes, "I did this in order that, first of all, from the time when the promises of God began to be more clear, down to the virgin birth of Him in whom those things promised from the first were to be fulfilled, the course of that city which is God’s might be made more distinctly apparent, without interpolation of foreign matter from the history of the other city, although down to the revelation of the new covenant it ran its course, not in light, but in shadow." Augustine's purpose for writing
~ Augustine's purpose for writing is to make a defense of Christianity and illustrate the "right" way of living.
@ Augustine's purpose for writing is to make a defense of Christianity and illustrate the "right" way of living.
*a. is to make a defense of Christianity and illustrate the "right" way of living.
b. is to argue that barbarians crushed Rome because they were minions of Satan.
c. is to make an argument about the age of the world.
d. is to claim that God caused the fall of Rome due to the burning of incense to other gods.

6. According to Augustine, the Visigoths chose to
~ According to Augustine, the Visigoths chose to spare the lives of those who took refuge in Christian churches. Augustine attributes their mercy to God's intervention.
@ According to Augustine, the Visigoths chose to spare the lives of those who took refuge in Christian churches. Augustine attributes their mercy to God's intervention.
a. sack Rome because of its immense wealth.
b. purposefully target Christians.
*c. spare the lives of those who took refuge in Christian churches. 
d. convert en masse to Christianity.

7. Book I, Chapter 1 of The City of God states: "They ought rather, had they any right perceptions, to attribute the severities and hardships inflicted by their enemies, to that divine providence which is wont to reform the depraved manners of men by chastisement, and which exercises with similar afflictions the righteous and praiseworthy—either translating them, when they have passed through the trial, to a better world, or detaining them still on earth for ulterior purposes." This passage suggests that the historiographical style is: 
~ Book I, Chapter 1 of The City of God states: "They ought rather, had they any right perceptions, to attribute the severities and hardships inflicted by their enemies, to that divine providence which is wont to reform the depraved manners of men by chastisement, and which exercises with similar afflictions the righteous and praiseworthy—either translating them, when they have passed through the trial, to a better world, or detaining them still on earth for ulterior purposes." This passage suggests that the historiographical style is salvation history. God is the motive force.
@ Book I, Chapter 1 of The City of God states: "They ought rather, had they any right perceptions, to attribute the severities and hardships inflicted by their enemies, to that divine providence which is wont to reform the depraved manners of men by chastisement, and which exercises with similar afflictions the righteous and praiseworthy—either translating them, when they have passed through the trial, to a better world, or detaining them still on earth for ulterior purposes." This passage suggests that the historiographical style is salvation history. God is the motive force.
a. a teleology.
*b. salvation history.
c. cyclical history.
d. the Earthly City.

8. Which of the following quotations from Book XIV, Chapter 28, relates to Augustine's description of the Earthly City?
~ "The former, in a word, glories in itself" describes the self-love of the Earthly City.
@ "The former, in a word, glories in itself" describes the self-love of the Earthly City.
a. One is motivated "by the love of God, even to the contempt of self."
b. "...in the other city there is no human wisdom...that God may be all in all."
c. "...the princes and the subjects serve one another in love."
*d. "The former, in a word, glories in itself...."

9. Which of the following quotations from Book XIV, Chapter 28, relates to the Heavenly City?
~ "...the other says to its God, 'Thou art my glory, and lifter up of mine head'" relates to Augustine's description of the Heavenly City. 
@ "...the other says to its God, 'Thou art my glory, and lifter up of mine head'" relates to Augustine's description of the Heavenly City.
a. "glorying in their own wisdom"
b. "ruled by the love of ruling"
c. "being possessed by pride"
*d. "...the other says to its God, 'Thou art my glory, and lifter up of mine head.'" 

10. Augustine, like Africanus and Eusebius, also situated his history within: 
~ Augustine, like Africanus and Eusebius, also situated his history within a chronological scheme. Augustine described history in three eras: "prior to the law," "under the law," and "under God's glory."
@ Augustine, like Africanus and Eusebius, also situated his history within a chronological scheme. Augustine described history in three eras: "prior to the law," "under the law," and "under God's glory."
*a. a chronological scheme.
b. a political defense of Christianity.
c. a new interpretation of scripture.
d. an attack on errors made by other Christian scholars.